Six hours of didactics are scheduled per week within the Department of Emergency Medicine. Conferences are held on Wednesdays and clinical rotation schedules are arranged to allow maximum attendance. The conferences include:

Trauma Conference
A lively multidisciplinary conference in which the most challenging trauma cases are presented and various aspects of trauma management reviewed.

Emergency Department M & M Conference
EM-II and EM-III residents present interesting, unusual, or complicated cases of all types. Emergency Department staff and residents discuss diagnostic and treatment approaches, with an emphasis on an evidence-based approach.

Core Curriculum
Each week two one-hour lectures from the core curriculum in emergency medicine are presented by faculty of the Department of Emergency Medicine as well as experts from other departments. The schedule ensures that all major areas of the core curriculum are covered in a two-year cycle.

Emergency Medicine Resident Seminars
These conferences are specific to emergency medicine and are presented in small-group format. Examples of major categories covered during these sessions include EMS topics, procedural skills labs, administrative and medico-legal issues, base-station course, and medical ethics.

Journal Club
Selected clinical questions are researched and the medical literature reviewed in an evidence based medicine format. The emphasis is on pertinence to the practice of emergency medicine and on study methodology. Residents develop skills required to critically review the medical literature. The ABEM Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) articles are also reviewed at journal club.

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